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No Google-Fitbit merger with out human rights remedies, says Amnesty to EU

Human rights NGO, Amnesty Worldwide, has written to the EU’s competition regulator calling for Google’s acquisition of wearable maker Fitbit to be blocked — apart from vital safeguards will probably be baked in. The tech large offered its intent to splash $2.1BN to amass Fitbit a y…
Human rights NGO, Amnesty International, has written to the EU’s competition regulator calling for Google’s acquisition of wearable maker Fitbit to be blocked — unless meaningful safeguards can be baked in. The tech giant announced its intent to splash $2.1BN to acquire Fitbit a y…

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